Lesson plan for Literacy Circles

Lesson Aims
At the end of this lesson students will develop their comprehension skills through the reading
of Harry Potter and the prisoner of Azkaban.
Learning Outcomes (use appropriate curriculum framework)
VELS Strands
Discipline-based

Domain/s
English

Dimension/s
Reading and writing

Learning

Standard/s
Use comprehension strategies
to analyse information,

Speaking and

integrating and linking ideas

listening

from a variety of print and

digital sources (ACELY1703)
Clarify understanding of
content as it unfolds in formal
and informal situations,
connecting ideas to students
own experiences and present
and justify a point of view
(ACELY1699)
Students experience a variety

Interdisciplinary
Learning

Communication

Presenting

of aural, written and visual

communication forms in both
formal and informal settings

Teaching and Learning Preparation

books for reading group
Ipads for Group working on Aesops tale
Macs for students working on Audiobooks

Pencil cases
Workbooks

Comprehension skills this lesson will reinforce

Activating prior knowledge

Inference

Generating and answering questions

Summarising

Visualising
Self-monitoring

Session Structure
Lesson Phase
Orientation /Introduction

The lesson will start with reading a story with the students.
During which the teacher will think aloud and clearly verbalise their
reading and their thoughts as they.
The teacher is encouraged to stop whilst reading and explain their
thinking as well as asking students if they have any strategies to aid

Teaching

the teacher when they are unsure the texts meaning.

The students will be placed in their reading groups during reading

strategy/Learning

rotations.

Activities

The lower ability group will be working on the iPads on Aesops tale.
The middle ability groups will be listening to the same Audio book on the
macs.
With the higher ability groups reading the text.

The groups will be split into ability groupings when reading their
individual texts.
The students will have individual roles when attempting to
comprehend the text.
The student that is the reader of the group will read one chapter from
the text.

Another student will write notes for discussion whilst the other is
reading aloud.
Whilst the predictor of the text will write down what they think is
about to or may happen next.
Another student will take on the role of teacher and guide the
discussion of their peers about students thoughts and thinking
processes of the book.
The writer of the notes will write a summary of the students
individual thoughts on the book and as a group they will summarise
Conclusion /Closure

their understanding of the chapter.

To conclude the lesson students will write their own individual

Assessment Strategies

summaries of the chapter in the text.

The assessment of this lesson will come from students group
discussions and quality of writing when summarising the text.